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Article: Big names get down in Sweet Home.(Festivals)(Oregon Jamboree brings Brad Paisley, Clint Black, Pam Tillis and others for three days of concerts)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 30, 2004
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Byline: Mark Baker The Register-Guard
SWEET HOME - "I'll tell you about the jamboree," says an older gentleman in the lobby of the Sweet Home Senior Center. "It oughta be in Arkansas!"
No, not everyone here loves the Oregon Jamboree, the annual, midsummer celebration of country music that regularly draws some of the biggest names in the business and daily crowds that double this city's population of 8,235.
Some, such as those at the senior center that sits a spittoon shot away from the main stage, find it loud, obnoxious and a traffic nightmare. But for every naysayer, there are many more who wouldn't have it any other way.
"Oh, we ...